Faust

The old doctor Faust regrets having only lived through sciences and metaphysics. When the Devil hears about it, he sends his emissary Mephistopheles with an attractive proposal: Faust will be granted youth in the person of Marguerite if he agrees to serve the Devil later, in afterlife…

As was often the custom, this new adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy was presented in Paris in 1859 in the accessible form of a comic opera. Faust consequently became a cornerstone of the repertoire and then a pilar of popular culture as it as the first French opera to be broadcast in its entirety and then engraved on LP.

With the cooperation of the Opéra de Lille and the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Faust finds its original form at the Opéra-Comique where many little-known chapters are revealed. Honouring this romantic and fantastic masterpiece, Louis Langrée, Denis Podalydès and their associates direct a cast led by Julien Dran.

Opera in four acts. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. Created on 19th March 1859 at the Théâtre-Lyrique. New production created at the Opéra de Lille on 5 May 2025, revived at the Opéra-Comique from 21 June to 1 July 2025.